Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship (ISSN: 0743-782X) is an academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 devoted to paremiology, the study of proverb

Proverb

A proverb is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim...

s. It is published annually by the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...

 and has been edited by Wolfgang Mieder

Wolfgang Mieder

Wolfgang Mieder is professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont, USA. He is a graduate of Olivet College , the University of Michigan , and Michigan State University...

, professor of German and folklore at the university, since the journal's first volume in 1985. The Associate Editor is Galit Hasan-Rokem

Galit Hasan-Rokem

Galit Hassan Rokem is a full professor in the Hebrew Literature department in the Hebrew University.Hassan Rokem completed her doctorate at Hebrew University under Prof. Noy, is a specialist in the proverb genre...

 of The Hebrew University and the Managing Editor is Janet Sobieski of the University of Vermont. It includes articles on proverbs from around the world, reviews of books, a bibliography of recent proverb scholarship, and a list of recent (re)published proverb collections.

It succeeded Proverbium: Bulletin d'Information sur les Recherches Parémiologiques (ISSN: 0048-5667), which was founded by Matti Kuusi

Matti Kuusi

Matti Kuusi was a Finnish folklorist, paremiographer and paremiologist. He wrote several books and a number of articles on Finnish folklore. He was the first to have introduced the type system of proverbs à la AT System of folklore, the Matti Kuusi international type system of proverbs...

and published occasionally by the Society for Finnish Literature between 1965 and 1975.